| PORTMANTEAU | Merger of meanings |
| OED | It has hundreds of thousands of meanings: Abbr. |
| TUFT | Word with a bunch of meanings including a beard, a feathery crest, a grassy clump, a loop in a rug, a tassel or a wisp of a squirrel's fluffy tail/ear (4) |
| PILE | Word with a stack of meanings, ranging from a heap of firewood to a large imposing brick building (4) |
| SENSES | Is aware of meanings (6) |
| SEMANTICS | Study of meanings |
| MOOD | From an Old English word with a range of meanings including courage, fierceness, heart, mind and thought, a noun for one's "good" or "bad" temper; the general atmosphere, feeling or pervading tone; or |
| SPAR | Simple word with a raft of meanings ranging from argument, cockfight and unaggressive scrap to lustrous mineral, mast, mate, pal, pole, undressed tree trunk and Dutch convenience store, open day and n |
| RINGER | Word with a veritable tintinnabulation of meanings from bell-toller, avian-tagger, champion shearer and doppelganger to quoit thrower, stolen vehicle and topping fellow (6) |
| RAILROAD | Force merger of two kinds of transport (8) |
| TANZANIA | Product of 1964 merger of Tanganyika and Zanzibar archipelago (8) |
| UNIFIEDGERMANY | East-West merger of the early '90s |
| ASSENTIENT | Approving merger of nine states |
| WEDDING | Merger of a sort |
| FUSION | Merger of us in strife (6) |
| TWA | American merger of 2001 |
| OCTET | Merger of two barbershop groups |
| SAS | Transatl. transportation merger of 1946 |
| ELONGATES | Extends merger of tech giants (9) |
| ORDAIN | Invest in merger of Chelmsford and Aintree? |
